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DACHAU-KZ - SATELLITE CAMPS - PART 15

DACHAU-KZ - SATELLITE CAMPS - PART 15

Alphabetical Order

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MUNICH -
LORD MAYOR (OBERBÜRGERMEISTER)The
International Search Service reported that for the period from 1
January to 14 April 1945 a sub-camp at the
Munich Lord Mayor Karl Fehler premises, existed.Two to nine prisoners had been stationed there.Details about this sub-camp or other details, are
not not known.An investigation procedure of the Central Office
of the JusticeAadministration in the years 1973 and 1974 was
discontinued, since no witnesses could be found.

MUNICH -THE PARTY
CHANCELLERY

The construction of the NSDAP party's chancellery
in the Gabelsbergerstrasse in Munich began in 1938.The basement had extensive bunker facilities and was
completed before the start of the war.The
rest of the building remained incomplete until 1945. The offices
of the 'Deputy of the 'Führer' Rudolf Hess were accommodated in
the 'Braunen Haus' at Briennerstrasse 45 in the Munich party
building complex.After Rudolf Hess's flight to
England in May 1941, his successor, Martin Bormann, headed the
unnamed party management, and moved his Munich office to the
"Führerbau" in the Arcisstrasse 12. His employees were
distributed in various buildings in the Brennerstrasse,
Arcisstrasse and Max-Josefstrasse.

Braunes Haus 1935

As
early as 1942, Erich M., a prominent prisoner, did serve as
a deputy Kapo with twelve to fourteen prisoners for about
six months to clean up the Party Chancery in Munich.The prisoners removed bombshells after an air
attack.They found wine and liquor in
the rubbish and drank the alcohol.After
this incident the working commando was dissolved in the
summer of 1942. Where these prisoners were
lodged remains unclear. In the spring of
1944, a new commando with 30 to 40 prisoners was taken from
Dachau initially by trucks, and later by train, to the Party
Quarters (Parteiviertel) in Munich. The commando consisted of
Germans, French, Russians, and Poles.

Braunes Haus 1945 - Ruins

About a sub-camp at the NSDAP-Munich-Party-Chancellry can be spoken of,
from September 1944, when the prisoners were accommodated in the
rear building of the bombed-out hotel Contienental in the
Max-Josefstrasse. The guard team was also quartered in this
hotel. In the hotel kitchen the food for the prisoners was
prepared. In the middle of December 1944, the hotel Continental
was badly damaged again after an air raid and the sub-camp
moved into the basement of the property at the
Max-Losef-Strasse. Here the offices of the '[Division III -
Legal State-Rights-Questions' of the Party Chancellery were
housed.
In the mornings various members of the NS-Party gave orders to
the working commando for the day. On the section of the Party
Administration in the vicinity of the Karolinenplatz, the
prisoners were mainly used for clean-up work after bomb attacks
and the construction of air-raid shelters, but also for the
repair work on private properties of Party members
(Partei-Mitglieder). The sub-camp was guarded by ten SS members
and the commanding officer SS-Scharführer Uwer.

Former prisoners reported that the conditions were good. They
were not mistreated. And no one was killed. This is confirmed by
a letter from SS-Hauptscharführer Hans Moser of April 5, 1945,
in which he complained about the lax conditions and, above all,
about the lack of mandatory duties (Verpflichtung) of the
commanding officer, Uwer. Moser had repeatedly been able to
establish that the prisoners were working too little, that there
was no way in guarding of their accommodation as these were
inaccessible, and that the prisoners had library books and road
maps which they had found in bombed-out houses.
In his memoirs, former prisoner Hans Schwarz described the fact
that the prisoners organized known shortages and exchanged these
for information and messages. In this way, valuable substances
(Stoffe) or wines from the KZ-Dachau supply stores were sent
to employees at the Party Chancery, who were paid with these
goods in return of internal party reports, snd incoming instructions or
orders.
On April 4, 1945, the sub-camp was reduced by eleven prisoners.
In the Maax-Josef-Strasse, 15 prisoners with seven guards and
the commandant remained. In the following weeks, the commando
must have been strengthened once more, because when it was
dissolved on April 22, 1945, it consisted of 25 prisoners. These
were taken by foot from Munich to kZ-Dachau.
On the site of the former party chancery in the
Gabelsbergerstrasse, new buildings of the Technical University
were built between 1965 and 1970.

MUNICH - REICHSBAHN (GERMAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS

)The International Search Service provides the period from
January 1945 to April 1945 for the existence of the sub-camp
Munich-Reichsbahn. However, an accident report of 22 December
1944 suggests that this sub-camp existed already at the end of
1944, as at the day before two prisoners kept in Protective Custody (Schutzhaft)
at the Munich railway station between Donnersberger-Hakenbrücke, had
been injured. They had warmed up with a railway policeman on a
fire near their workplace, when they were injured by an
explosive device. They were French prisoners and were taken by ambulance
brought back to the hospital of Stammlager Dachau.

Emblem of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-

The commando, which consisted of up to 500 prisoners according
to a post-war survey, carried out clearing work for the
Reichsbahn. In it's listings are also two Kapos mentioned:
Reinfrank and Quad. Only one name is known by the SS staff.
Wilhelm Onmacht, a Feldwebel (Sergeant) of the Wehrmacht, was
used as a security guard between 5 March and 25 April 1945.
Unfortunately no sources are available that could clarify
one-offs.

The departments of the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler and
his coworkers in Munich were located since 1935 in the
Partyiertel (NSDAP Quarter) in the Karlstrasse 10 ind were
extended to Karlstrasse 8. According to the International Search
Service, there was a sub-camp Reichsführer SS for the
construction management of the Waffen-SS and the police between
8 November 1943 and 14 April 1945. A strength report to the
KZ-Dachau of 23 October 1942, bears witness that seven Prisoners
before that date under the designation 'Commando Reichsführer SS
Munich' were used. It is still unclear whether these prisoners
are already attributable to the sub-camp Reichsfuhrer SS, or
whether it is a time-limited commando, which was deployed before
the sub-camp was established. Among these prisoners were two
German and three Polish prisoners of the group from the police
security department. Kapo was the German Alfred Mienik.

Strength reports of April 1945 indicated 13 pr rather 14
prisoners for the external camp. A Serbian prisoner was returned
to KZ-Dachau on 6 April 1945 due to illness and a Polish
prisoner was requested in exchange on 9 April 1945 from the main
camp. Neither for the commando in 1942 for the sub-camp are
details as to accommodation, work assignment and SS guard teams
known. From 1973 to 1975, the central office of the
administration of the judiciary could not ascertain the events
at the camp of the Reichsführer SS.
Today, an insurance company is located at Karlstrasse 8 and 10
in a post-war building.

MUNICH - REICHSFÜHRER SS-ADJUTANT

After an air attack on Munich on 7 January 1945 the Reichsführer
SS Heinrich Himmler personally ordered the special use of 50
prisoners from the KZ-Dachau for the removal of the damage on
the Führer building and administration complex of the NSDAP in
the Arcisstrasse. An adjutant of Himmler, SS Hauptscharführer
Schitzler, transmitted these orders to the SS barracks at
Freimann (in Munich). As to security procedures, a strengthened
protective command for the prisoner's use in the
Reichs-Administration of the NSDAP should be established and put
into place. The guardsmen were to report on 9 January 1945 at
ten o'clock in the administration building of the NSDAP in the
Arcisstrasse. Information on the size of this protective command
is not known.

At
first the prisoners were only meant to be used for one or two
days. On January 11, 1945, Dr. Kasper Ruoff thanked the
Reichsführer-SS for the use of the prisoners. In a letter on
behalf of the Adjutant, he mentioned that without the
prisoners the provisional re-construction of the destroyed
departments would not have been possible. At the same time,
Ruoff asked that the detainees be allowed to work for a
further 14 days, not only on clean-up work but for the repair
of damaged buildings. On the same day, the extension of the
prisoners' resolution until 25 January 1945 was confirmed.
That the Prisoner commander was also in the
Reich's-Administration was there over January, is evident in
a file note of the principal Owander of 27 March 1945. He
points out that against the background of the landing of enemy
paratroops in the vicinity of Munich, the KZ-prisoners should
be removed from the Reich's-Administration grounds for
security reasons and should be taken back into the KZ-Dachau.
Yet in this memo, it was handwritten in the margin that the
Reichsschatzmeister (Treasurer) still needed the prisoners.
Last mentioned was the sub-camp 'Reichsführer-SS Adjutant',
according to the International Search Service on 14 April
1945.
Insights to the prisoners, their accommodation and living
conditions as well as that of the SS- Wachmannschaft (Guards)
are not available.MUNICH - REICHSFÜHRER-SS MAIN PAYMASTER

The ardent prisoner, Anton S., recalls that on January 31, 1945,
he was sent to Munich with nine other prisoners to work on the
bombarded Administration Building of the 'Reichsführer
SS-Hauptkasse' (Central Paymaster). From Monday's to Saturday's,
the prisoners were taken by train from Dacha station to Munich
and returned to the KZ-Dachau in the evening. The commando was
guarded by two to three Czech SS members.
In 1973 the International Search Service was able to identify
four former prisoners of this commando by name. They came from
the German Reich, Poland, Italy and Yugoslavia. On February 7,
1945, the commando was assigned a German Schutzhäftling (Custody
Prisoner) who was by profession an Erdarbeiter (Earth Foundation
Worker).
Further details on the exact use, the food, the activities,
which the prisoners had to carry out, as well as the SS-Guard
duties are not known. The commando was closed on 3 March 1945
according to a KZ-file.

MUNICH - REICHSKRIMINALPOLIZEIAMT
(Reich-Criminal-Police-Department)

The Reichskriminalpolizeipolizeiamt (RKPA) emerged from the
Prussian Landespolizeiamt in 1937 and was integrated into the
department 'V' after the founding of the
Reichsicherheitshauptamt 1939. A total of 19 criminal police
departments were set up, which, under the direction of the RKPA,
coordinated the work of several Kripostellen. The sub-camp,
called 'Reichskriminalpolizeiamt', is the Criminal Police
Office, Munich, which is under the responsibility of the RKPA,
at the end of Ettstrasse 2. Between January 1945 and 14 April
1945, a commando of twelve prisoners was deployed there. Apart
from these temporal data provided by the International Search
Service, no further details on this sub-camp are known. It must
remain open whether it was a camp, or if the prisoners were
brought daily from Dachau to be employed there.
The District Court was unable to find any former prisoners to be
questioned about a place with temporary
accommodation of huts, tents, or other structures. At the Ettstrasse 2 is now the Munich police department

MUNICH - SPRENGKOMMANDO

In the German Reich, KZ-prisoners have been used since 1940
to defuse Blindgänger (dud bombs) with long-term detonator
devices . The prisoners worked in small groups up to six men at
changing locations. They were called bomb search or explosive
commandos, so today a precise distinction of these individual
commandos is difficult. In a letter for the bomb search
commander Munich, which was housed in the Stielerschule, the
description Bomb-Search-Commando or Dud-Bomb-Removal-Commando
appears.

Disposal of a 4,000 pound blockbuster bomb dropped by the RAF during World War II. Found in the Rhine near Koblenz, 4 December 2011. A linear shaped charge has been placed on top of the casing
The disarmed bomb, positioned on the
platform of a truck in Cologne, Germany. German authorities
evacuated some 20,000 people from the vicinity while dealing
with the old explosive device, which weighed in at 2,200
pounds.Credit
Rolf Vennenbernd/DPA, via Agence
France-Presse — Getty Images

The international search service does mentioned on 12 July
1944 about a sub camp 'Munich explosive commando'. This was
in regard to an inmate of the so called 'Sprengkommando
12.7.194'. The prisoner of the 'explosive commando
12.7.1944' is known by name. The index file indicates,that
the Viennese Friedrich Zeilinger had died on 8 July 1944
while in this commando. Whether it was an independent
command, which was only deployed in Munich on 12 July 1944,
or whether it was a smaller commando within a larger group
of prisoners who had been deployed for the purpose of the
unexploited demolition in Munich remains open to question
.In November 1944, there were at least eleven bomb disposal
commandos in Munich, which were deployed in groups of six.
Again it is unclear whether they belonged to the bomb search
command at the Stielerschule or formed an independent
commando remains unanswered.MUNICH - SS TEAM HOUSES

In the summer of 1935, these so-called SS-team houses
were established as a kind of "Studienstiftung-SS'' (Study
Foundation SS). At first, suitable houses were acquired near
universities and administered by the Race and Settlement
Headquarters. Here lived an average of 30 students , who had
previously passed through a vigorous and strict evaluation
procedure. They had to become SS members,participate in SS
military service, and take part in the political world-view
education (politische Weltanschauung). Finally, they should
be used as an academic SS elite. One of the first 'SS-Team
1935 -Housing' was built in Munich.
On 1 April 1942, the management of the team-house was
transferred to the SS-Administration at
Maria-Theresienstrasse. On November 5, 1942, seven prisoners
from the KZ-Dachau were taken there, who are known by name.
Thus a sub-camp consisting of six people, plus a cook was
established, who had come for renovation work in the SS
men's building. The prisoners came from the German Reich,
Poland and Luxenburg, one of them belonged to the faith
community of Jehovah's Witnesses. They were all housed in at
the Maria-Theresienstrasse
.Commandant of this sub-camp was an SS-Oberscharführer who's
name as well as those of the guards is unknown.

During the existence of a two-week period of this sub-camp,
two prisoners were brought back to the Stammlager Dachau and
replaced by other prisoners. The sub-camp which was also
called Painter-Commando, and was dissolved on November 8,
1942, with the return of the seven prisoners.
Today, the property is home to an investment consulting
firm.

MUNICH - SS-LOCAL
COMMAND-BUNKER CONSTRUCTION

In a non-localizable SS barracks in Munich
were since July or August 1944 ten KZ- prisoners
deployed in the construction of an air-raid shelter.In 1973 the International Search Service
was able to find three prisoners of this sub-camp.One of them remembers that the prisoners
were housed in a room in the fourth level of the
barracks.The windows of the room
were barred, and the prisoners were guarded by SS-guards
from the Dachau.The commander
beat one prisoner from Warsaw with a piece of board
brutally on his head, that the injured inmate fell to
the floor, where the commandant
continued to kicked him him until the man died.The corpse of the prisoner was later placed in
the barracks yard foe all to view.The unknown commandant once mistreated a
prisoner so hard that he had to be transferred to the
KZ-hospital in Dachau. He returned to the
sub-camp after a good recovery.In April 1945 the
commando of the SS barracks was evacuated, and the
prisoners were taken back to Dachau on foot.After preliminary investigations by the
the state justice administration Munich II in
1976 a procedure against the unknown commandant
murder was instigated.After preliminary investigation details of this sub-camp as well as
of the suspects could not be determined, after
which the proceedings were terminated.

MUNICH - THE MEAT-WORKS
(GROSSCHLACHTEREI) RUDOLF THOME

The Meat Works of
Rudilf Thomae in Munich could not be located for this
writing.During 1942 the company
engaged prisoners from the KZ-Dachau.The International Search Service first mentions
of an individual prisoner on 21 August 1942.But since two Kapo's of this sub-camp are
known, and since a single prisoner was never overseen
by one Kapo alone, the camp consisted of more than one
prisoner.On 1 November 1942,
Wilhelm Binner was replaced by Erwin Hansselmann as Kapo
of the sub-camp.The composition
of this working commando was that, according to the
documents at hand, exclusively about skilled workers,
who were either engineers and carpenters.Other details could not to be clarifiedThe last indication of this camp, is a
strength report for the KZ-Dachau of March 12, 1942.The Central District Court proceeded
without results about the existence of a sub-camp Meat
Works Thomae.

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It is well known that Dachau is located just North of Munich, Germany. I lived in the old SS-Hospital Haus.No 52B for 10 years. I did publish my German ID but had to delete certain entries due to Identity Theft. I am now living in New Zealand since 1956 my country of adoption, still married at the age of 85 with three great grand children,have three sons and a number of relations in America, Australia, Switzerland and Germany. Otherwise of reasonable heath, although slow in my movements. My hobbies: Travelling to other countries meeting and trying to understand other cultures, supporting a school of street kids in India for the last 25 years.